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In mid-2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union after a campaign characterised by racism voiced in terms of xenophobia and nativism (‘take our country back’); and soon afterwards, the USA elected Trump as its president after a campaign characterised by misogyny, white supremacy and nationalism (‘America first’). Hostility towards the racial ‘Other’ appears to be sweeping the UK and USA. The future is difficult to predict with much certainty, except that racism is back with a vengeance.
This chapter discusses why racism has persisted for so many years, and the future of the struggle against racism. It suggests that new strategies may be required, and that the struggle against racism should link up with efforts to bring about fundamental changes in psychiatry and clinical psychology more generally.
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Fernando, S. (2017). Racism with the Advent of Trump and After Brexit. In: Institutional Racism in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology. Contemporary Black History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62728-1_9
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